With by other hobbies (backpacking, hunting, motorcycling, mountaing biking, guns, ect) I've accummulated a lot of "gear". Lately, since finding this forum, I've started thinking more about how many things an item is capable of doing. It would be fun to start a thread of "Macgiverisms", making things, fixing things, with whatever is at hand. Only tried and true things count. I'll start with my latest "invention". I read about it somewhere else so I can't take credit but using thin elastic cord and a photon 2 microlight I made a "headlamp" that rivals all my current ones, including my tikka. I let it hang by my bed at night and when I get up I just grab it. It amazes me how it stays postioned on my head and how I can adjust it to point where I want. It also amazes me how it illuminates my field of vision.
So lets hear it, I imagine knives can be used in many ways. How about aluminum foil. I molded a reflector for my photon headlamp just for kicks. I can read in bed without disturbing others, although it's kind of too much trouble to go to, it was still a fun excersize. Duct tape knife sheaths, plastic bag gaitors, lets hear it! The rule is that you had to really do it, not just say something like "I can make a snare out of wire" , or "I could make a boat out of earwax and belly button lint, nooooo, that would be to easy. Saying is one thing, what have you actually done? <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />